During the livestream, the Italian national team director Casella said that Bulimar actually had this knee pain already in Romania, and since in podium training and in competition you perform on harder surfaces than the pits you have in training, the pain increased in Italy. That’s why Romanian coaches decided to preserve her. Anyway, it doesn’t seem a bad injury!

Regardless Bulimar was in or not, it looks like a Russian resurgence…. I just wish we can see more from the Chinese but I just have a feeling that Russian team at Worlds this year will be one of their strongest team we’ve seen in a long time. They still need Musty as she is still their best AAer, but they have shown capability to be a competitive team without her…

I think China will have a hard time retaking the silver this year. In the meantime, unfortunately Romania is still in a funk. They are in danger of not being able to be in the Big4 this year…